Dionne Lee
Castings
February 26 - April 2, 2022
620 Kearny St.
Reception: Saturday, February 26, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Masks required
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emit
give off
send out
send forth
shed
radiate
diffuse
spread out
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make
produce
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toss
register
record
enter
file
lodge
post
set down
vote
allot
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fling
pitch
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dash
launch
flip
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discharge
propel
chuck
heave
sling
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mold
form
shape
model
sculpt
frame
forge
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manufacture
bewitch
curse
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enchant
exuviate
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discard
slough off
throw off
let fall
let drop
molt
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Castings continues my interest in place, ancestral memory, and survival. Moving away from found images sourced from wilderness manuals and how-to’s, I look to the body, and the land itself, as primary sources. Through the camera, a tool that affirms the experience of witnessing, I engage with how the body holds and carves through its memories, such as the resilience of generations to thrive despite systematic barriers and harm inflicted on them. Following the shadow of a fallen tree branch turned divining rod, rotating the sedimentary joints of the body, and gazing into the eye of a dandelion or the black hole of a rock overturned; are all modes of research to consider the relationship between the self, the past, and the landscape in which they meet.
Dionne Lee (b. 1988, New York, NY) works in photography, collage, and video to explore power, survival, and personal history in relation to the American landscape.
She received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2017 and has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Yancey Richardson, NYC; New Orleans Museum of Art; Aperture Foundation, NYC; Light Work, NY; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh; and the San Francisco Arts Commission, among others. Lee is a 2022 Artist-in-Residence at The Chinati Foundation and Unseen California.
